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The federal budget deficit from now through to 2018-19 is likely to be $129 billion, $21 billion worse than in the December official budget update, according to Deloitte Access Economics.
Beyond short-term revenue and expenditure, Australia’s structural deficit continues to grow.
There’s a reason it’s getting harder to get any value from the budget.
Big Tobacco relies on tactics of deceit, delay and frustration which it has developed and refined over half a century.
Business groups point to a GDP stimulus from a company tax cut, but modelling shows small businesses miss out.
The first years of the millennium were kind to government finances. A benign economic environment, and a once-in-a-century commodity boom fuelled by Chinese growth, helped the Federal budget to a cumulative…
The work of David Aschauer could help the government put a more positive spin on spending.
Australia’s 44th parliament may be coming to an end, but there will be plenty of political action before the 45th can start.
Voters will hear a lot about productivity in the lead up to the budget. The key thing to remember is that it’s a very rubbery concept, enormously tricky to measure and highly politicised.
Turnbull’s budget conundrum: promise too much and fail to deliver, or do too little and cruel his electoral chances.
After a GST increase to finance big income tax cuts disappeared as a viable option for the May budget, attention centred on reducing the 30% company tax rate. But, assuming the government goes ahead with…
Tony Abbott spent just shy of two years as Prime Minister, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t leave a lasting legacy.
A better tax system and long-term budget sustainability starts with this blueprint.
In the May Budget, the government may look for ways to shift the costs of higher education from the taxpayer to the student.
Giving states the power to levy income tax won’t make up for the shortfall in health and education funding and it could mean poorer states are worse off.
The states have historically fought to keep their income tax powers so it seems a joke to see a rejection of the Federal Government’s proposal to give these powers back.
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) is trying to refocus debate on repairing the budget for the future.
It wasn’t always so.
Malcolm Turnbull admits he did not make a call on Sunday night to tell Scott Morrison he was bringing the budget forward, but that draws attention to the obvious point – Morrison had abundant warning…
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